GitHub - henryiii/pygpu-minicourse: Princeton mini course on GPUs in Python (original) (raw)

PyGPU: High performance Python for GPUs

Henry Schreiner

This minicourse covers ways to speed up your code using GPUs. Since many of us do not have a reasonable (NVidia) GPU on our laptops, the course is designed to be run on our local teaching cluster. You will need to be on the Princeton network, and will need to be able to access Adroit (registration beforehand required).

Princeton setup (Adroit)

Git clone

Log into our OnDemand site, https://myadroit.princeton.edu. You will want to select "Clusters -> Shell" on the header bar.

Header bar image

Now, you'll want to type:

git clone https://github.com/henryiii/pygpu-minicourse

This will get the course materials. Press CTRL+D to quit.

Start up a CPU instance

We will be working with a small number of shared GPUs, so you'll want to work in a CPU only instance, and only submit a notebook to the GPU 1-at-a-time (so you don't block them for others).

Back on the header bar on the original page, click "Interactive Apps" or "My Interactive sessions", then select "Jupyter". You should see a page that looks like this:

Setup page

Make sure you have checked the JupyterLab checkbox, that you have enough time (at least 2 hours), and that you have entered our reservation (pygpu). Leave the extra slurm options blank. (without a reservation,--gres=gpu --constraint=a100 would pick GPUs and set the type of GPU.)

The Anaconda3 version is custom. The module name is course/pygpu/default.

After you click launch, you should soon see a button that looks like this:

Button to click

Click it to enter JupyterLab!

Local setup

If you have a GPU, you can install the environment provided inenvironment.yml with Conda. You'll probably have to choose a kernel when you launch it (and you may need the conda_nb_kernel package).

Running GPU kernels

Load the ExampleRunner.ipynb notebook. You can enter the name of a GPU notebook (without the extension) at the top of the provided cell, and run that to submit the notebook as a job.

Survey

Link: See chat.